The bride tells the chorus about a visit the beloved paid her some time before in her native home. On a beautiful spring morning, he asks for her c…

O my dove ... in the clefts of the rock. —The rock pigeon (Columba livia), the origin of the domestic races, invariably selects t…

O my dove^F17 An epithet sometimes used by lovers, and is a new title Christ gives to his church, to express his affectio…

The church is Christ's dove; she returns to Him as her Noah. Christ is the Rock, in whom alone she can consider herself safe and find herself at ea…